Capital projects of note in 2024


Dec 2024: Mondi Neusiedler completes €20 million investment to improve energy efficiency and sustainability

Dec 2024: Georgia-Pacific Announces $90 Million Investment to Grow Consumer Tissue Business

Dec 2024: Kruger Products exploring advancing construction of new tissue plant

Dec 2024: Billerud to invest $127 million in Michigan facilities amid transition to paperboard production

Dec 2024: Arauco invests US$40 million to expand production in Mexico

Nov 2024: DS Smith Announced EUR 34 Million Investment in Hungary

Nov 2024: $600 million Saica recycled paper mill could mean 230 new Dayton, Ohio jobs, if city alters zoning rules

Nov 2024: UFP Packaging Expands with New Packaging Design and Development Center in Newnan, Georgia

Nov 2024: Irving Tissue plans a $600 million facility expansion in Georgia, hiring 100 more workers

Nov 2024: Weyerhaeuser Company announces plan to build new facility in south Arkansas

Nov 2024: Mondi starts up new extrusion line at Štĕtí to meet the growing demand for sustainable packaging solutions

Nov 2024: Metsä Board drives forward with major upgrades to Simpele mill

Nov 2024: Mondi: Warsaw marks completion of €90 million plant upgrade with leading manufacturers in Poland

Nov 2024: Kruger invests in demonstration project for carbon capture and reuse at its Wayagamack Mill

Oct 2024: Metsä Group Celebrates the Opening of Its New Bioproducts Mill in Kemi, Finland

Oct 2024: Metsä Group launches further round of public consultation on updated plans for proposed Goole tissue paper mill

Oct 2024: Kruger Products successfully starts up LDC Tissue Plant in Sherbrooke

Oct 2024: Huhtamaki Expands Its Capacity for Fiber Lid Production to Lurgan, Northern Ireland

Oct 2024: UPM Raflatac Expands Operations with New Terminal in Toronto

Oct 2024: Mondi completes €95 million investment to boost efficiency and sustainability at Świecie containerboard mill

Oct 2024: Stora Enso announces opening of Production Unit for Dry Molded Fiber

Oct 2024: Georgia-Pacific Cuts the Ribbon on New $425 Million Dixie® Tableware Facility in Jackson, Tennessee

Oct 2024: Atlantic Packaging Products, Ltd. Announces the Opening of Its New Manufacturing Plant in Hamilton, Ontario

Sep 2024: DS Smith completes €17.6m investment in Greece

Sep 2024: Eren says £1 billion facility will transform UK recycling

Sep 2024: Twin Rivers Madawaska paper mill to receive nearly $10 million Maine tax credit

Sep 2024: Port Hawkesbury Paper breaks ground on $400 million wind farm

Sep 2024: Stora Enso starts operations in its new head office in Finland

Sep 2024: Georgia-Pacific plans to transform its Atlanta HQ

Sep 2024: CarbonScape plans to build biographite plant in Finland

Sep 2024: Georgia-Pacific celebrates $550 million Green Bay expansion

Sep 2024: Sofidel Duluth, Minnesota paper mill seeks tax break for major expansion, adding 160 jobs

Sep 2024: Kruger announces $32 million investment in Kamloops

Sep 2024: Ahlstrom has initiated a feasibility study for adding saturation and release coating capability for tape base papers

Sep 2024: Greif Opens New IBC Facility in Malaysia

Sep 2024: Menasha Packaging Invests in North American State-of-the-Art Preprint Hub

Aug 2024: PotlatchDeltic Announces Waldo, Arkansas Sawmill Construction Completed

Aug 2024: MM Kotkamills opens Sheeting Centre in Kotka, Finland

Aug 2024: Sofidel Duluth, Minnesota paper mill plans major expansion, adding 160 jobs

Aug 2024: Sappi to increase efficiency of production processes at its Ehingen mill in Germany

Aug 2024: Pregis Expands Production at Two Facilities to Meet Surging Demand for EverTec Mailers

Aug 2024: Metsä Group's Kerto LVL mill in Äänekoski reached its rooftop height

Aug 2024: Klabin invests in infrastructure and technology for fire prevention and control

Aug 2024: Turkey's Eren Secures $850 Million Loan for New UK Paper Mill

Aug 2024: First Quality Tissue to Expand its Ultra-Premium Towel and Tissue Products Manufacturing Capabilities

Aug 2024: Progroup starts production at its new corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Petersberg, Germany

Aug 2024: Green Bay Packaging Buys 80 Acres for Expansion Near Kohler Co. in Arizona

Aug 2024: DS Smith boosts Portuguese operations with €50m investment

Jul 2024: Stora Enso invests in its corrugated packaging production in Poland

Jul 2024: Suzano starts operation of the world's largest pulp production line

Jul 2024: Mercer Mass Timber invests in its Okanagan Falls facilities

Jul 2024: Lindenmeyr Munroe expands distribution operations into Georgia market

Jul 2024: Green Bay Packaging expanding with new facility in Wisconsin

Jul 2024: Irving showcases its pulp mill expansion plans to the public

Jul 2024: Metsä Board Simpele mill to install renewed board machine in 2025

Jul 2024: Mayr-Melnhof Holz invests in new pressing system for glulam components

Jul 2024: Klabin to invest $301 million for plant modernization

Jun 2024: Södra to invest $190 million in kraft lignin production facility

Jun 2024: Clearwater Paper invests $22 million, adds jobs in Shelby, North Carolina

Jun 2024: Mondi celebrates completion of €125 million containerboard mill upgrade in Kuopio, Finland

Jun 2024: Investments approved for the Sappi mill in Maastricht

Jun 2024: DS Smith Iberia Installs a New Single-pass Digital Printer with Water-based Inks

Jun 2024: Sodra invests in new GIS switchgear at Mönsterås pulp mill in Sweden

Jun 2024: Metsä Group selects key partners for pre-engineering project for Muoto packaging facility in Finland

Jun 2024: Södra to invest in bark-based tanning agent production at Varo mill in Sweden

Jun 2024: Smurfit Kappa invests over €30 million in Spain to further reduce CO2 emissions

Jun 2024: Starkraft boosts kraft paper production capacity to 350,000 tons annually

Jun 2024: Ahlstrom completes its investment in Brazil for a new lamination line supporting the global filtration industry

Jun 2024: Norske Skog plans to invest in pulp production line at Saugbrugs mill in Norway

May 2024: Proposed $1.1 billion upgrade planned for J.D. Irving Saint John's pulp mill

May 2024: First Quality investing $418 million to expand facilities, bring 600 jobs to Macon, Georgia

May 2024: Mondi breaks ground on €200 million recycled containerboard mill investment in Duino, Italy

May 2024: Sonae Arauco invests Euro 5 million in wood recycling centres in Portugal

May 2024: Arauco invests in new resin technology at its plant in Trupan, Chile

May 2024: Essity invests in new R&D center in France

May 2024: DS Smith Invests €6m in Production Machinery for La Chevrolière Packaging Facility and in a New Workshop for the Production of Cardboard Pallets

May 2024: BC says Tolko Mill north of Kamloops will get an $8M expansion

May 2024: J.D. Irving gets into wind farm business with $550M project in western N.B.

May 2024: Roseburg to start up new MDF facility in late summer 2024

May 2024: Sappi Europe modernises Gratkorn Mill to ensure future of paper production

May 2024: Chile's CMPC eyes new $4 billion pulp mill in Brazil

Apr 2024: Georgia-Pacific Announces $50M Expansion At Muskogee Mill

Apr 2024: Metsä Board commits Euro 60 million to upgrade Simpele mill

Apr 2024: Suzano Ventures invests up to US$5 million into Bioform Technologies to further develop bio-based plastic alternatives

Apr 2024: Batista's $4.8 Billion Eldorado Venture Boosts Brazil's Agribusiness

Apr 2024: Greif Prepares For Opening of New Manufacturing Facility in Dallas, Texas

Apr 2024: Two Rivers Lumber to build $115 million sawmill in Alabama

Apr 2024: Metsä Board inaugurates Europe's largest and most modern folding boxboard machine in Husum, Sweden

Apr 2024: Georgia-Pacific Investing More than $150 Million To Grow Consumer Tissue Business

Apr 2024: Metsä Group starts pre-engineering project for Muoto™ wood fibre packaging products

Apr 2024: DS Smith invests €6 million in a state of the art 4-colour converting machine for Eerbeek packaging plant in Netherlands

Apr 2024: Ahlstrom strengthens its support to the tape industry by expanding the production of creped base paper in the USA

Mar 2024: Holmen to invest $142 million in wind power

Mar 2024: Holmen to upgrade log sorting station at Kroksjön sawmill in Sweden

Mar 2024: Mondi invests in Stambolijski mill in Bulgaria to reduce water use

Mar 2024: Menasha Packaging Company Announces $70 million Expansion and Investment in Midwest Region

Mar 2024: Metsä launches public consultation for planned Goole tissue paper mill in the UK

Mar 2024: Spinnova and Suzano Have Signed A Letter of Intent Regarding Plans for A New Production Facility

Mar 2024: Former paper mill in Jay, Maine set to re-open as particle board manufacturer in a few years

Mar 2024: Kruger Products Inc. announces increase to production capacity with $14.5 million investment

Mar 2024: Södra to invest in green electricity generation at its Mörrum pulp mill in Sweden

Mar 2024: Irving Pulp & Paper invests in woodyard in New Brunswick, Canada

Mar 2024: UFP Industries Expands With New Packaging Unit in Wisconsin

Mar 2024: DS Smith announces major upgrade at UK's largest recycled paper mill

Feb 2024: DS Smith invests Euro 13 million in two facilities in Austria

Feb 2024: Metsä Group invests Euro 370 million in Mariestad tissue paper mill in Sweden

Feb 2024: OCED Selects Four Projects in KY, MS, TX, and WY to Advance Technologies to Reduce Harmful Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Feb 2024: Metsä Group to invest Euro 100 million into its tissue paper mill in Mänttä, Finland

Feb 2024: Smurfit Kappa says it will invest €54 million in Spanish facility

Jan 2024: Boise Cascade to invest additional $140 million in engineered wood production in Alabama and Louisiana

Jan 2024; WestRock to Build New Corrugated Box Plant in Wisconsin

Jan 2024: Ahlstrom plans to invest in new production line for molecular filtration media to expand further offerings for indoor air quality, electric vehicles

Jan 2024: APRIL Group Initiates Commissioning of New Paperboard Facility to meet Rising Demand for Sustainable Packaging

Jan 2024: UPM Raflatac builds new slitting terminal in Toronto, Canada

Jan 2024: Greif opens modern adhesives facility in Cincinnati, Ohio

Jan 2024: J.D. Irving commissions new biomass boiler at sawmill in New Brunswick

Jan 2024: Kimberly-Clark buys Beech Island, S.C. land for more than $5 million

Jan 2024: Kimberly-Clark to buy former steel mill land in Warren, Ohio